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Replacing A Drive problem on T60
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Posted by: mailnride

My SAT-T60's stock drive died recently, (it was a 40gb quantum,) This was a previously unmodded unit. I picked up a Maxtor 5400 rpm 80 GB drive today, got ahold of a clean Tivo 2.5 image for the SAT-T60 and set about the upgrade. The 80 giger was set as the primary slave. To keep things simple, I didn't even involve my primary master, which was my C: drive in Windows.

I have 2 cd rom drives on my pc. I burned a boot disk and a cd-r that contained the 2.5 image. I booted from one cd rom using Hinsdale's suggested bootdisk method, mounted that drive, mounted the other CD-r and proceded to restore using the following line of code:

mfstool restore -zi /dev/hdd/ice2.5t-60comp.bak /dev/hdf

This worked fine, finished ok, said everything was ok. It was using mfstool 1.0, from the boot CD.

I then changed the jumpers to master and installed the drive in the Tivo, and it booted only the the "Welcome. Powering up..." screen, and stayed there. I unplugged once, and then started getting the constant reboot condition where it would restart every 30 seconds.

I could hear the drive spin up when I put the plug in. I figured it might be the bug with mfstools 1.0, so I got mfstools 1.1 and used essentially the same methods, except that I also mounted a floppy drive and read the mfstool1.1 file from the floppy so my command looked like:

/mnt/flp/mfstool restore -zi /dev/hdd/ice2.5t-60comp.bak /dev/hdf

Same result, restored fine, but when I went to test in the Tivo, got the same behavior. Any ideas? I'm going to go back and try it one more time. Maybe I missed something.

Posted by: mailnride

Few other things, I realized I wasn't using CSEL (Cable Select) jumper setting, I was using the Master setting. I re-imaged and set it CSEL, and it still didn't work.

Add to the above the umount command:

umount -f -a -r

After the image has successfully complete.

I'm really scratching my head now.

Do I need to do anything to erase the earlier image attempts? Do these get overwritten automatically each time I do a 'mfstool restore' to the same drive?

Posted by: mailnride

Just tried it again, this time ran the restore off of my C: drive (primary master) using mfstool 1.1. Still no luck.

Another thing I noticed, when I first plug the tivo in, I get a steady Welcome screen, but it's only after the 1st reboot (2nd boot in total) that I get the cycling and resetting.

I seem to be following the method. I'm still wondering if I can keep restoring over and over on the same drive without ever formatting or erasing it.

Posted by: GScott

Where did you get your image? I'm having the exact same problem with my T60.

Posted by: MidgetBorderCollie

I just started having this problem with my T-60 today. I have also heard a new download is coming down from Tivo. Could it be related?

Posted by: mailnride

I don't know what caused it, but it seems suspicious, I can count at least 4 people whose T60s were turned into doorstops in the past 72 hours.

Posted by: weaknees

I would ask the same question--where did you get the image? Do you know that it's good? Has anyone else restored with it successfully? Some of the images that circulate have been reported to be bad. I know people have had trouble with the DSR image; not sure about the SAT image.

If you know that the image is good, then FYI, we have run into a similar problem with a standalone: A perfectly good image on a perfectly good drive caused a reboot loop in Standalone TiVo #1. When we put the drive into Standalone TiVo #2, all was well. We have no idea what the problem was with TiVo #1, but it was obviously not drive related. Do you have access to another Sony to see if your drive works in another TiVo? That would certainly go a long way toward answering the questions in the first paragraph above.

Also, know that if you're trying to restore someone else's 2.5 image onto your TiVo, you might get an Error #51. If you do, you'll have to "Clear and Delete Everything" before being able to successfully watch live TV.

Good luck!

Posted by: Rumpy

Try running MFSTools 1.1 and use restore -bzi instead of -zi. (Tiger should add this to the instructions).

If you are not already doing so, make sure you using an 80 conductor IDE cable and not a 40.